Manchester United can't afford to wait for Thomas Tuchel amid Chelsea uncertainty

For now Thomas Tuchel is living "day by day" as Chelsea manager and the 48-year-old German is certainly in unchartered territory. No amount of pro licence courses and expensive seminars can teach you to deal with the kind of issue that have been occupying Tuchel's mind recently.

The former Paris Saint-Germain manager is coming out of the situation with his reputation enhanced at the moment, doing his best to answer questions that really should be greeted by those executives above him at Stamford Bridge. Tuchel has gone from answering questions about Romelu Lukaku's form to his club being sanctioned, supporters' embarrassing themselves with chants of support from Roman Abramovich and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

After beating Norwich 3-1 last night Tuchel said he was "still happy" to be the club's manager but no recent Chelsea boss could ever have envisaged having to say "as long as we have enough shirts and a bus to drive to the games we will be there and will compete hard."

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Tuchel is right that this is now a job that is taken day by day and nobody quite knows what is going to happen to Chelsea over the next 24 hours, never mind the next couple of months.

The dramatic change in circumstances immediately led to question marks over Tuchel's future and it's certainly not the job he signed up for at the moment. If the sanctions continue for any length of time it is going to hurt Chelsea's ability to remain competitive at the top of the Premier League.

That led to some quick links with Manchester United, who are in the market for a permanent manager this summer and, if available, Tuchel would almost certainly be a better candidate than Mauricio Pochettino or Erik ten